Top Gear was never going to end well due to 'inherently dangerous' format | Former Top Gear host

[@Vabstanggtless]

Why is Clarkson's face being used on this video when he isn't actually in it, click bait?

[@tmultifaceted3844]

Dislike because of the use of Clarkson's face as click bait.

[@matthewwalker5430]

Rory, in my opinion, was 1 of the only big positives about "new" Top Gear. How the BBC let him go in order for them to focus on celebrity amateur "car enthusiasts" is beyond me. I also think that the difference between "old" Top Gear and "new" Top Gear is the fact that Clarkson and co had full creative control. They were the ones who set up their 'stunts' and expected themselves to do it but once the BBC booted Clarkson and retained that control for themselves it suddenly became the BBC or whoever getting involved and TELLING the presenters what they expected of them. That feels very different. It's much easier for Hammond, for example, to be level-headed over his crashes when he is putting himself into those situations than it would have been if he had been told what to do and felt forced into those situations by some executive.

[@jamesmccallum6770]

Rory was a good TG presenter and should never have been dropped.

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Never watched it since Clarkson and co left.

[@IRGeamer]

"Never watched it since Clarkson and co left." "So who cares about any of the human beings that replaced them or them being put into danger for views..." Spoken like a true sociopath... “There is a cult of ignorance… and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov

[@adenwellsmith6908]

@@IRGeamer That's the BBC. I'm not paying for propaganda, so I'm not the sociopath. So how are you going to pay your £600,000 share of the state's pension debts?

[@bannjaxx]

@@adenwellsmith6908 "That's the BBC. I'm not paying for propaganda, so I'm not the sociopath." Saying you're not a sociopath, whilst kinda sounding like a sociopath. |Has the MSM turned against you, has it? 🤣🤣🤣 Oooooh Bill Gates virus! Gary Lineker!!! Vorderman!!! Trump good! Harry bad! Lewis bad! Farage good! Well you get the idea - susceptibles are all alike. All funny af tho. 😀

[@adenwellsmith6908]

@@bannjaxx State debts. Pure propaganda from the BBC. Don't pay civil servants, doctors, nurses, their pensions. BBC is clear, its just the money owed to bankers that's a debt.

[@scroggins100]

There is a case for Top Gear to make a simple car show, as of the original without the mayhem.,Leave that to the old boys.

[@davidmacdonald1695]

No there isn’t. Nobody would watch it as was the case with the old show, hence why it changed.

[@somethingfunny6867]

clarkson hammond and may had 20 years of growing into the roll.

[@JackBlack-ii1ip]

role

[@somethingfunny6867]

@@JackBlack-ii1ip no they grew into the fact they could crash and roll as happened to Hammond multiple times.

[@neil27pearson]

Everyone thought what Clarkson and Co did was easy... and they found it wasn't..... and they though they were easily replaced... and they weren't 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DavisJ-ln6fw]

Actually they were easily replaced

[@DCI_LeoDan_]

​@DavisJ-ln6fw The replacements were easy to find. Replicating the level of success of the previous three presenters? Not so much.

[@long_view]

Rory Reid is one of the very best car reviewers, and knows his cars and driving as well as any and much better than most. And yet TG decided to dispense with his services and brought in a cricketer and someone else (name eludes me, but a talentless loudmouth).

[@gavinivers8941]

Sadly many of the producers though everyone could do what Tiff had done on the old Top Gear show. Tiff was a racing driver to a high level, who become a TV frontman. Not many people can slide a car and chat to the camera. Hence when Clarkson relaunched Top Gear, they couldn't find anyone suitable, so they invented, The Stig.

[@SuperYacht-News]

You really need to stop showing people on camera who are not talking. It’s cringy. This video you have a woman interviewing Rory Reid and yet there’s another person not involved in the interview keeps being shown onscreen?

[@jodu626]

what’s this gotta do with clarkson?

[@anonUK]

He's Mr. Top Gear, even though he was sacked from it, he (and Andy Wilman) still basically created the format. The previous format was William Woollard and Tiff Needell walking around that year's Ford Fiesta, talking about engine capacities and miles per gallon, so it definitely needed a refresh. Before that, it was Angela Rippon or Noel Edmonds pootling along on the motorway.

[@jodu626]

@@anonUK so nothing to do with clarkson then. gotcha

[@IRGeamer]

@@jodu626 "gotcha" “There is a cult of ignorance… and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov

[@jodu626]

@@IRGeamer so it is clarksons fault or it isn’t ? help me out. i’m very ignorant

[@johanjansson2723]

@jodu626 : Everything is of course always Clarksons fault. Ask Jeremy! 😂

[@Treeburnify]

When it becomes more about buffoonery that solid motor journalism, then this is what you get. Thank goodness Fifth Gear returns this Thursday, with at least some journalistic car reviewing content.

[@blob22201]

That's great news for you and the 5 other people that watch fifth gear.

[@foobarf8766]

The DW motoring show is great too, no BS just straight journalism and reviews it's free on here

[@richardpreskey7758]

Of the presenters post Clarkson, the best combination should have been Harris, Flintoff and Leblanc. Rory got shafted and he deserved better...he was much better than evans and mcguinness put together as a host and reporter

[@JackBlack-ii1ip]

I always had issues with Top Gear bad mouthing grey imports from Japan. Britain was known as Treasure Island for a reason, and that's because the motor trade robbed the mug punters blind. Jack, the Japan Alps Brit

[@jl-xs6ud]

5 seconds in, that wasn't Chris Harris. Downhill from here I suspect

[@cybergornstartrooper2157]

When they strapped a Sinclair c5 to a bob sled and sent it down the track at 70mph, I thought the show has gone too far someone could die here.

[@MoonsOfEmpire]

Terrible click bait thumbnail no one cares about the stand ins for the previous presenters. The show ended when they left.

[@NichoTBE]

I would love to see a Top Gears RAMS, i bet they just copy the previous risk statements and change a few things lol.

[@superdave2316]

Clarkson was Top Gear.

[@DavisJ-ln6fw]

No he wasn't

[@harrypenn611]

Jesus why ask him .........

[@anglocon]

Why is Clarksons mug on the video thumbnail? You didn’t interview Clarkson and Flintoff crashed … pathetic … I would have hoped for far better from The Times

[@HR-yj9qp]

Sorry I would like to disagree to some extent. When I go through a selection process and based on what you are told/demonstrated by the candidate, I select a person, then I would expect the candidate to be prepared for the job. You can't expect to get the job and then decide you are not suitable for the job and it's up to the employee to know your deficiencies. The person recruiting is also human, unless you tell them how are they supposed to know.

[@glynndraper437]

Couldn't end fast enough. It was tv for boring old men who can't drive , scripted sh7te jokes and Hammond was just vile .

[@johnedwards230]

Click bait picture. Poor show.

[@stringer-ik1pc]

It all went downhill when Rory Reid started. The beginning of the box ticking era.

[@The-Sea-Dragon-1977]

You are wrong actually. Rory is a smart & thoughtful car journalist & 100% a car guy.

[@stringer-ik1pc]

@@The-Sea-Dragon-1977 😃 nope.

[@secretsquirrel3793]

I didn't think a great deal of Mr Reid before this and he's gone down in my estimation due to this interview. He was an experienced motoring journo before TG and I'd be very surprised if he didn't talk up his own abilities in the job interview. Many car entheusiasts do track days, race or off road for fun. This too is dangerous. If you dont like it dont do it! There are planty of us who'd give our eye teeth to present the show. Grown ups need to take responsibility for their actions. If he wasn't comfortable doing something then he should have spoken up. I strongly suspect that Mr Reid is using this news item to push himself back into the limelight. Sad.

[@MohamedSamyAlRabbani]

"your expeiences" a weasel word

[@TheRegimann]

🌨️ snowflakes gets on management.

[@inghell]

Must be winter where you are.